Ιωάννα Ράννου

I am a Clinical Psychologist (MSc.) providing individual psychotherapy services to adults, adolescents and children. I also hold parental counselling sessions, aimed at a better understanding of children's emotional needs, improved communication within the family system, better management of the conflicts that can arise in everyday life, and the strengthening of the parental role.

I am a graduate of the Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and I completed with distinction the three-year Postgraduate Programme in Clinical Psychology at the same University. I hold a licence to practise psychology (3954/2018). As part of my training, I completed clinical placements at the 2nd Psychiatric Clinic of the “Attikon” University General Hospital, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic of the Sismanogleio General Hospital, and the Child Psychiatry Department of the Peristeri Mental Health Centre.

I have professional experience in Centres for Special Therapies, where I work therapeutically with children, adolescents and adults facing anxiety, mood disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, difficulties in interpersonal relationships and more. In this context, I conduct individual sessions, social skills development groups for children and adolescents, and parental counselling.

I have been trained in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of psychometric tests used in the diagnostic assessment of children, adolescents, and adults (WISC-III, WAIS-IV, TAT, CAT, Rorschach, House-Tree-Person, and others).

With continuous training and staying up to date with developments in my field as a core principle, I have attended contemporary educational programmes such as: the Postgraduate Seminar in Clinical Psychopathology “Panagiotis Oulis”, the Postgraduate Seminar of Clinical Skills in Psychopathology “Panagiotis Oulis”, the two-year training programme “Avaton”: Psychodynamic Clinic of Psychosomatic Illness, the Introductory Training in Supporting Adolescents with Symptoms of Gender Dysphoria or Gender Incongruence, and the professional training and development programme “Play Therapy: Theoretical Approaches, Practical Applications and Experiential Exercises”.

Throughout my professional and academic career, I have taken part in research work addressing different aspects of mental health — among them the role of attachment style and self-compassion in suicidality among people with major depressive disorder, the effects of the pandemic on mental health, well-being in later life, the psychological symptoms of young adult migrants and Greeks, and the psychological burden on carers of people with mental illness.

As part of my research activity, I have contributed to studies presented at scientific conferences, as well as to the writing of papers published in international scientific journals. I have also attended numerous scientific conferences and seminars covering a broad spectrum of mental health topics.

Since the beginning of my professional journey, I have been working under systematic supervision and personal psychotherapy, with a view to my professional development and the continuous improvement of my therapeutic practice.